Special Issue of the MDPI journal "Education Sciences" on "Virtual Schools" (online K-12 providers) Authors are invited to submit research articles to this Special Issue. The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2024. This Special Issue aims to consolidate cutting-edge research and insights into K-12 virtual schools in order to serve as a comprehensive resource for … Continue reading Special Issue “Virtual Schools for K-12 Education: Lessons Learned”
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OER World Map
Did you know that OER World Map data is held in the Virtual Education Wiki? Visit the wiki. https://videopress.com/v/04oVLCvv?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true
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Relaunch – Virtual Education Wiki
Visit the wiki: http://openeducation.wiki/wiki/Main_Page This week sees the official relaunch of the Virtual Education Wiki on March 9th. Matic Media is excited to re-engage the Wiki community and begin building upon the latest information the wiki holds. The wiki is devoted to virtual learning in education - at all levels (schools, colleges and universities) … Continue reading Relaunch – Virtual Education Wiki
Happy New Year for 2022 including education
As I write this based in the UK in early January 2022 here like in many other countries we are wrestling with the issues caused by the rise of the Omicron variant of Covid. Yet one can be reasonably optimistic at present that 2022 will be a bit closer to what used to be called … Continue reading Happy New Year for 2022 including education
New beta repository of policy-related studies on OER
Responding to demand from researchers and policy analysts we are gradually copying all the public reports from the EU-funded POERUP project and all our associated OER-relevant projects onto a repository called Policies for OER Uptake. This is hosted on the Canvas LMS which we use for much of our teaching and content development for ourselves … Continue reading New beta repository of policy-related studies on OER
New logo
As part of the site revamp we now have the official Matic Media Ltd logo on the web site. The balls are not fairy lights (despite Christmas approaching) but the five levels of the Pick&Mix system for benchmarking online learning.
Adult Education and Open Educational Resources – new report by Sero for European Parliament
Adult Education and Open Educational Resources is a 140-page “Study”, written by Sero, released by the European Parliament research office on 15 October 2015. It reviews the current use of Open Educational Resources in Adult Education in Europe (with a focus on Member States of the European Union – including the UK as one of … Continue reading Adult Education and Open Educational Resources – new report by Sero for European Parliament
Distance learning data collection and enrollment patterns in Australia, UK, and USA – and Canada?
There is a very interesting article from OBHE, the Observatory for Borderless Higher Education, on distance learning enrollments in Australia, UK, and USA - featured on their front page. This looks at enrollments and the split between domestic and international students in a way maybe familiar to those used to HESA statistical tables. The full article is … Continue reading Distance learning data collection and enrollment patterns in Australia, UK, and USA – and Canada?
Cloud to help Arab Open University provide more support to students and staff, CIO says #cloudmena
Cloud to help Arab Open University provide more support to students and staff
Opening up learning 